There’s a forum over at www.broadbandreports.com where people post photos and drawings of their home and home-office networks. Some people have some really simple setups, while others have truly sophisticated installations.
I’m sure ours is somewhere in the middle. I posted a drawing over there so I suppose that it only makes sense to post it here as well.
Step 1: Get Another SIM Card
Last Friday I went down to my local T-Mobile shop and had my personal cellular plan converted to a family plan. Then I had them issue me a second SIM card, adding a new line to the plan. I told them that I’d use my old phone, an old Motorola Razr v3. I even brought it with me to the store. We used it to confirm that the SIM worked as expected.
My series called The Beginners Guide To Sucessful VOIP Over DSL was just republished over at Small Net Builder. Tim Higgins, the editor over there, has been very supportive of my recent efforts. Where they are interested I may be…
While at my local T-Mobile shop this past weekend I got into a conversation with the store manager. We both have considerable trepidation with respect to T-Mobile being possibly merged with Sprint/Nextel. He was a very nice guy and apologized…
A number of people in the VOIP user community have deployed this device already, some have even documented their efforts. Such prior art will no doubt help me get mine working also. Here are their notes: The VOIP wiki: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Setup+MV-370+GSM+Gateway+with+Asterisk…
Two weeks ago my wife told me that the small snom m3 handsets are not working as well as they should. To be specific, when she’s in the front bedroom the call quality is not good. I was out of town at the time but eventually got around to looking into the matter.
It’s is a simple matter of signal propogation. That bedroom location is the furthest possible point from the base radio, which was in my office.